slate_gray colors

Literary analysis:

Slate gray emerges in literature as a versatile and evocative color descriptor, often imbuing objects and scenes with a cool, muted, and sometimes somber character. It is used to paint both natural and man-made elements—from the gritty adobe walls ([1]) and stained roofs ([2]) to the shifting hues of expansive skies that transition from obsidian to pale blue ([3]). Slate gray also marks the textures of living beings and crafted items: it defines the subtle coloration of feathers ([4]), the distinctive skin tones mentioned in descriptions of dark races ([5], [6]), and even the intricate detail of photographic negatives ([7]). Whether highlighting the quiet elegance of a landscape or the nuanced expression in a moment of close observation ([8], [9], [10]), slate gray consistently functions as a refined, understated accent in literary imagery.

Second, a steel or slate gray adobe with much gravel of a coarse nature.
— from The Raisin Industry A practical treatise on the raisin grapes, their history, culture and curing by Gustavus A. Eisen
A stained roof in slate gray
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner
Its rays slanted upward, shadows fled from the sage; the obsidian sky with its strewn diamonds became slate gray and, in moments, a pale washed blue.
— from First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton
The feathers are dark brown and slate gray, spotted white on the sides.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys
In brunettes and women of dark races this surface is pigmented; in dark races it is usually a slate gray.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis
The affected parts are covered with grayish, greasy scales, which are easily dislodged, the skin underneath is oily and slate gray in color.
— from Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Positive$ are reddish brown and negatives slate gray.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte
And Tristram had said their color was slate gray; for her part she saw nothing but pools of jet ink!
— from The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn
The head is slate gray to blackish brown in all the specimens.
— from A New Snake of the Genus Geophis From Chihuahua, Mexico by John M. Legler
She looked away from Miles, and down upon the river, where the topsails of a schooner, slate gray, glided above the fir-points.
— from Admiral's Light by Henry Milner Rideout

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